The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-28

sherin's deputies held the key he discovered
tht the small roll Of money remaining over
from last weeks wages after the modest
weekly. bills had been paid had IN some
mysterious manner escaped from the sntlg
protection Of his wnistcoat packets. Possibly
the Suaye and polite stranger who a~Tolusizel
so gracefully for inStling him ut the ferry
landing could have told what hmi become OF
the money. But this was only %sur,niyr.
The fact itself WIS beyond conjecture; the
money was gone. True, it was only II few
laltry Il and twn,iollar t~ilIs-only faces
and dnccs," ms the ,lclunct firms DASH.
ing Traveller, Harry Siimtom. would
crushing to poo. Caleb, coming m,"n
The hrrlH Of the other disaster, than thr
unsuccessful o%l.iIing Of the richest kind Of II
lnckp@t would have been tn the gay andbril.
liant Harry, and Caleb remarked nhis time
privately aud to the inner self, "Wcl1. dash
it MI nuy way" hut whatever there was Of
comfort and relief in these 'ScaIe valve
emissions from m oycrchnryel heart, they
did not furnish the curative splnrc 0I
reNourcc or cxpclicnt. What to do WIS the
immediate problem. A week before Caleb.
uncle had said to him that II he, Caleb, could
lay his hand upon twelve or fifteen hundred
dollars there WIS Il chance for him and the
cash In the old gcntlcmnn's factory. together
with II sure income of more than double the
wages the little man hal been receiving.
What good, however, was such m uiIcr 10
Caleb! lie was rs far from having q 500
aR from the moon.
Moulily he turned toward the bank to
draw the SUN ncCcsSatytO pay the rent, and,
passing in, after n tedious wait for the doors
l." open, he saw the little savings that
stood between him and dire distress shrink
into still more alnrmins insigniilcancc.
He tf, the hank with Il heavy hear, and,
fearful list he might again become tho vic.
tim pf cruel fortune, he kept the limynry
little hook, with It's mUic-t fringe Of ends
81 bank notcs, tightly elapsed IN his hand.
ltrningticcurnc Uf tbs nearest "SfIurtcut,"
ne found himself among n thrUng Of men,
some interested, nome idly curious, MI a,,e,t,
tive to the words Of n 'lnIlAr gentleman, wli0
was v0lubly soliciting bids on something
"hichCulch wastooi nuch @culial wi,hothcf
matters to notice; for back of the ,lnu,et
aud verbose gentleman stood the polite and
stinEc stranger who hui nInlneiN-I ut the
ferry handling for t@tlins Caleb ard wiio
might have taken the roll Of money. Hop.
i,H nsninst despair, Caleb pressed forward
through tho crowd, and, bank book IN hand,
waved n frantic signal toward tho stranger.
"Ai, y,st thank you, Sir," chut,.rsi on
thc tinplEr anCtlniCcr. "rlIrty unn did you
say? Going at ,hitty.oin, 'f,y.6ne, '~ryGtw;
VIII M one 'ny thirty.two2 Lust calf; gen.
tlcrncnl CHING. going, gone! This gentle.
man gctt 1t $500, and mighty CHEAP, too.
Caleb.
Tho poor littlo INN was utterly con.
founded. lie saw ,ha, hr hal mnwitinKly
bid of somc valuable piece "f property, ntd
u feeling nf horror came over him ~ hn fell
that he must publicly disnvow his Intention
and explain that hc only wanted to arrest
tho attention Of n wcii'frcsSei gentleman